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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 1.10.14


nan It is recorded that the greatest generals played on the lyre and the pipe, and that the armies of Sparta were fired to martial ardour by the strains of music. Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment, come to serenade him in his tent, "I don't believe we can have an army without music." (G. C. Underwood, in Freeman's biography of Lee, Vol. III, p267. -- And what else is the function of the horns and trumpets attached to our legions? The louder the concert of their notes, the greater is the glorious supremacy of our arms over all the nations of the earth.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

11 results
1. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.56-11.60 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

2. Plutarch, Moralia, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3. Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 1.10.14 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 612, 611 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Silius Italicus, Punica, 7.438-7.470, 11.434-11.446, 11.449-11.458, 11.476-11.478 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6. Statius, Siluae, 3.1.116-3.1.120 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

7. Statius, Thebais, 1.9-1.10, 2.700, 4.356-4.360, 7.426 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 9.17.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

9. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 9.17.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

10. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.471-1.472, 4.85

11. Vergil, Georgics, 4.523

4.523. The fetters, or in showery drops anon


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
achilles Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
amphion Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
arion Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
capua,decadence in Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
carmina conuiuialia,greco-roman ethos of Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
carthage Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
chiron Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
ciconian matrons Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
cupids,sons of venus Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
dido Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
fides / fides Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
hannibal,in capua Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
hebrus Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
hospitality,greco-roman Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
luxuria,in capua Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
maenads Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
modestia' Verhagen (2022) 283
modestia Augoustakis (2014) 283
oedipus Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
orpheus,decapitation of Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
orpheus Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
paris,judgment of Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
pollius felix Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
punic wars,second Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
silius italicus,the power of lyre and music in Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
teuthras Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283
venus Augoustakis (2014) 283; Verhagen (2022) 283